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title: Mate, what was the cold like, proper? — Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what was the cold like, proper? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 950 «Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plague to Falster» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 12 · ★ · Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plag…

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Mate, what was the cold like, proper?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 950 «Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plague to Falster» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/950-pg27200-part161/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:t12:1
# text = Mate, what was the cold like, proper?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
7	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Mate |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Mate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Sharp, like vitriol and burnt tar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:t12:o1:1
# text = Sharp, like vitriol and burnt tar
1	Sharp	sharp	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	vitriol	vitriol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sharp and bitter, like vitriol from the apothecary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:t12:o2:1
# text = Sharp and bitter, like vitriol from the apothecary
1	Sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	vitriol	vitriol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	apothecary	apothecary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sharp as a knife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:t12:o3:1
# text = Sharp as a knife
1	Sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Sharp, like vitriol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:t12:o4:1
# text = Sharp, like vitriol
1	Sharp	sharp	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	vitriol	vitriol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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